Soli Deo Gloria: The Erosion of God-Centered Worship
Christ has been
displaced, the gospel has been distorted, or faith has been perverted,
it has always been for one reason: our interests have displaced
God's and we are doing his work in our way. The loss of God's centrality
in the life of today's church is common and lamentable. It is this
loss that allows us to transform worship into entertainment, gospel
preaching into marketing, believing into technique, being good into
feeling good about ourselves, and faithfulness into being successful.
As a result, God, Christ and the Bible have come to mean too little
to us and rest too inconsequentially upon us.
God
does not exist to satisfy human ambitions, cravings, the appetite
for consumption, or our own private spiritual interests. We must
focus on God in our worship, rather than the satisfaction of our
personal needs. God is sovereign in worship; we are not. Our concern
must be for God's kingdom, not our own empires, popularity or success.
THESIS
FIVE: SOLI DEO GLORIA
We reaffirm that because salvation is of God and has been
accomplished by God, it is for God's glory and that we must
glorify him always. We must live our entire lives before the
face of God, under the authority of God and for his glory
alone.
We deny that we can properly glorify God if our worship is
confused with entertainment, if we neglect either Law or Gospel
in our preaching, or if self-improvement, self-esteem or self-fulfillment
are allowed to become alternatives to the gospel. |
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What
is the Chief End of Man? by John Flavel
What
is the Chief End of Man? by Matthew Henry
Man's
Chief End by the Rev. Thomas Watson
God
created Us for His Glory by John Piper
OUR HOPE:
THE GLORY OF GOD Romans 5:1-5 by John Piper
Is
God for us or for Himself? by John Piper
Of
Man's Chief End and Happiness by Thomas Boston
God
Glorified in Man's Dependence
1 Corinthians 1:29, 30, 31 by Jonathan Edwards
Reformation
for the Glory of God
by Samuel T. Logan. Jr.
Comparison
of God-Centered and Man-Centered Worship (chart)
God-Centered
Worship by William Harrell
A
Defense of Reformed Liturgy
By Michael S. Horton
Soli
Deo Gloria by Brett Baker
What
Does It Mean To Praise?
A Look At Psalm 150 by W. Robert Godfrey
God's
Glory And Our Duty To Be Joyful by Rev. Bryn MacPhail
God’s
Passion For His Glory Isaiah 42:1-9 by
Rev. Bryn MacPhail
SOLI
DEO GLORIA by Rev. Chuck De Groat
A
Call For Reformation in the Contemporary Christian Music Industry
107 Theses by Steven John Camp
Soli Deo Gloria: by Brett Baker
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